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Senior Grades
At this level you will start to learn to use weapons, external breaking and later, internal breaks.
Weapons
The first weapon in the syllabus is the bo (staff) followed by the broad sword.
Senior students are encouraged to develop skills in other Chinese style weapons of their own choice such as the spear, straight sword, steel whip, fan, pudao and kwan dao. Nunchakus, tonfas and sai, although not traditional Chinese weapons, are also popular choices.
Breaks
From Brown belt onwards we start to learn the correct techniques for breaking objects. This follows two separate concepts, external breaks and internal breaks. External breaks are taught first and involve using the correct technique to break wooden boards or concrete slabs with kicks. From there you progress on to learning to channel internal energy or chi to perform more difficult internal breaks using other parts of the body (e.g iron stomach, iron back and iron hand).
Some iron hand breaks